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All We Have is Time

A hundred years ago, desperate and dying in her secluded village, Beatrix wished to live. And live, she did. Now, scraping by on the streets of 16th century London, she spends her accidental immortality following a single rule: don’t get attached.

And she doesn’t, until a charismatic, anomaly of a man named Oliver catches her picking his pocket at The Globe Theatre. Instead of turning her in, they spend a single, perfect day together. Beatrix buries the memory, until she chances upon him again in the crowds of Venice’s Carnevale.

One hundred and six years later.

Because Oliver is a time traveller, two words Beatrix is certain have no business being next to each other. It’s impossible. He’s impossible. Then again, so is she.

It is the beginning of a love story spanning centuries, woven between the biggest events in history and the quiet moments lost to it. But it can’t last forever, even if Beatrix can. Her time may be endless, but Oliver’s is running out.

About Amy Tordoff

Amy Tordoff has always been drawn to stories, both discovering them in the history of others and imagining them in to life. She attended the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, NY, where she completed her thesis in screenwriting and graduated with honors with a BFA in Film. When she’s not writing, Amy enjoys people watching in the abundant Colorado sunshine, knitting her own sweaters, and sharing trivial facts learned in the name of writing research. All We Have is Time is her first novel.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405976220
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Price: £8.99
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